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Monkey Visual and Auditory Memory

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One of the earliest studies of memory (Ebbinghaus, 1895) showed that list memory, when plotted according to the list’s serial position, was U-shaped. Memory was best at the beginning (primacy effect) and the end (recency effect) of the list, and poorest in the middle. In the late ‘50s, researchers showed that the recency effect, thought to be the short-term memory (STM) component, could be selectively eliminated from the primacy effect and middle portion, thought to be the long-term memory (LTM) component, by delaying recall and filling the delay with distracter activity (e.g., Brown, 1958; Peterson and Peterson, 1959). This manipulation was the beginning of the modern study of short-term memory and helped bring about the so-called cognitive revolution. There has been considerable emphasis on the discovery of dissociable memory processes and development of theories to explain them. Some memory processes (e.g., language based) may be unique to humans, but general theories of memory should also apply, at least in part, to animals as well as humans.

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